Hans
Slyglif Cain wrote:
> > From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
> > Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 00:39:27 +0100 (BST)
> > Subject: Re: ext2fs: do directories ever shrink?
> >
> > > Maybe on disk. But somehow at up to 50000 files no slowdown is
> > > noticeable when adding or looking up files. This is one of the
> > > areas where I saw big difference in performance between FreeBSD
> > > UFS and Linux ext2fs.
> >
> > Interesting. Is this compared to Linux 2.0 or 2.1 - ie is it smart
> > caching or have they got something clever added on the UFS
> > directory structure we should look at
>
> I realize this has probably been brought up before, but wouldn't it be
> possible to cache the entire directory tree/inode list from a drive?
> Granted, it would take up a large amount of memory, but for systems
> with a lot of memory to spare (96+ MB), it would offer a huge
> performance increase. Also, it would be a good way to use memory over
> 64MB on motherboards which only cache up to 64MB, since even uncached
> memory blows disk away. Perhaps making the amount of memory used by
> this cache configurable at boot time would be helpful as well.
>
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